The royals may be trained for this life, but their composure was still remarkable when you consider their messages this week to their beloved mama and granny.
Their own tributes worn on their chests, with medals from all of her jubilees, and brooches she had given them as gifts.
As the guard began their vigil around her coffin the only sound inside Westminster Hall was a noisy tapping every 20 minutes marking the change of those on duty. Some who'd been queuing for 15 hours finally allowed inside the hall, beginning that endless public stream of remembrance that will last four days., it has been humbling and uplifting for a family who need the public's support; people who met her, others who didn't but still felt they knew her, now in their thousands queuing to share their loss.
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